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It's impossible to pick a favorite passage from The Lord of the Rings, but here's what I'll say: when the time came to pick a contemporary reading for my ordination to the ministry, here's the one I chose. I wonder what sort of a tale we've fallen into?

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In or around #Liverpool tomorrow (Thursday)? I'll be speaking to the Herdman Society @herdman.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social about #LGBTQ+ history and the lack of diversity in Earth science #lgbtqhistorymonth 🏳️‍🌈

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Tolkien once argued that the most beautiful words in the English language could be ‘cellar door’. This is thought to be because he died before anyone uttered the words ‘zinger banh mi’

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Hemingway, evergreen

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Amazing!

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Handy!

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BREAKING: Trump states Rohan "should not have started" the war with Isengard.

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Don’t be tricked into hopelessness and passivity. It is honourable and right to try, even to fail. Together we can.

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Save it. Visiting PRI was such a treat. The Palaeozoic collections are INCREDIBLE. Sign the petition! www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

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Lyme Regis, ammonite! This specimen is a real treat. What would Mary Anning say?

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The amazing brach gallery will make a humble brach lover cry with joy! 😀😀😀 The brand new Chengjiang Fossil Site Museum

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"...algal biomass exported to the Neoproterozoic benthos stimulated the ecology of benthic predatory protists under anoxia... enhancing the transfer of fixed carbon and energy to eukaryotes occupying higher trophic levels." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology

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Dinoturbated is my next rock band name.

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yes girls!!!

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Nature valentines. Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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Saying it with their whole chest I see.

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Fantastic

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More relevant than ever

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January has been a hell of a year

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Kirk to Enterprise!

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Tenured position for a zoologist at my museum in Oslo. Think: organismal, systematics, evolutionary, genomics/phenomics. Deadline 23 Feb 25. Ad says needs scando language but scroll to end of ad for small print. And if u had a postdoc stint, u can apply! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Repost!

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A great place to work. Have a look.

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This is a great resource for finding and contributing science images!!!

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Via crabs, taught millions of people about convergent evolution. Described species, developed methods to analyze their fossils and relationships, and something exciting forthcoming. Results may be useful for fisheries and bioeconomy resilience 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Friday Lecture at PHAB

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Ah yes… a great system.

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

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Oh to be this cool

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I love you more than this!* *Even when I'm crabby #crab #invertebrate #art 🦀🐡

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How did we get here? Did you care about things that didn’t effect you? Did you care about Indigenous, blak, black, disabled, queer, POC, trans, women? How did we get here? We walked over the rights of those underneath us, we eroded our foundation We got us here. They told us the path we walked.

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This is super fun! Have a look for early metazoan community arrangement. Biotic interactions build diversity!

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Postdoc positions at Centre for Planetary Habitability with @trond-torsvik.bsky.social @planetwerner.bsky.social & others! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... to "explore ... planet's potential to provide environments hospitable to diverse life forms" #Oslo is a great place to be!

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President Trump making God illegal. Because, of course.

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

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News from Episode 209: Holes bored into ancient shells provide a record of predator-prey conflict in the Cambrian.

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🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉 "From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X24... Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

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🗣️ 83% of respondents believe scientists should communicate about science with the public. 📣 52% believe scientists should be more involved in policymaking.

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We don’t need better stories. We need to be humble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Traveling from outside the US to attend the #Evol2025 meeting in Athens, GA, USA in June? You may be eligible for our International Travel Stipend! Apply by Jan. 31. Early meeting registration is now open for those needing visas. @evolmtg.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe

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The sounds of my teens

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Teach a man to fish and he’ll eventually claim he just always had that knowledge innately and then try to explain to you how fishing works

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Decided to actually finish one today. #oilpainting #trilobite #stilllife #realism #sciart #stillife #art #painting

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well are ya?

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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

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Building up your community is just as revolutionary as tearing down oppressive structures. Show up.

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Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Keilan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵 #linocut #printmaking #pattern

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figures for my "introductory entomology for design majors" lecture, in which we learn that Bug is a Series of Tubes

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